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Collections of great lesson plans, sites, resources:

• Check out the 'Quick links for Middle School Teachers - bottom right

Maps:

• Interactive - view hundreds of historical maps (primary documents) from various time periods

• The story of the US told in 141 maps- 1795-present times: Manifest Destiny

Colonization:

• Downloadable game with objective of building a free nation - players begin with a few colonists looking for the " new world" - great for teaching colonization

• Historic Jamestown - 3D tours with lesson plans, images & articles as well: Virtual Jamestown

• 3D flyover of Indian settlement at Jamestown: Vimeo

• Game- survive & thrive in colonial Jamestown -Students compare their strategies at the end to see if they did better than the Jamestown colonists: History Globe

Slavery:

• This site covers slavery, transatlantic slave trade, & abolition movements - timelines, audio & pic galleries!: The Abolition Project

Constitution:

• Interesting current news articles based in issues involving our constitution:

• World Book Advanced's Teaching with Documents are lesson plans focusing on one or more primary source images (Be sure to go to World Book Advanced)

U.S. History (in general):

• World Book Advanced's Teaching with Documents are lesson plans focusing on one or more primary source images (Be sure to go to World Book Advanced)

• HipHughes US History for Dummies on YouTube: HipHughes

• Learn about America's past from vintage photos : Shorpy

• -can use some of the photos for school projects as long as you give credit or link to shorpy and do not post on photo sharing sites.

• Pics & Video: actual footage with descriptions of American history: World Digital Library

• Historic maps: Old Maps Online

Civil War:

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• Selected (1,000) Photographs: LOC

• 3-D Photographs: CCWP

  
  -look at this example of questions for creating questions to accompany photos:
  http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/civil-war/studentindex.html
  
  

• Battle Reenactment in 3D: http://youtu.be/IouISrUL01A

• Same battle in 2D: http://youtu.be/N_hWyCmdJWc

• Clara Barton Bio: http://youtu.be/xkQMtR3BtyU

• Band Music of the Civil War: LOC

• Good activities/lessons on using Civil War photos: National Archives

• Young faces of the Civil War -see 7 & 8 of 28: HistoryChannel

Government:

• Guide to U.S. Government: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/index.html

• Educational games: Run your own presidential campaign; solve international problems; run your own constitutional law firm, etc! : iCivics

Bias in the News:

• Lesson Plans for teaching students how to identify bias and opinion from fact, etc.: NewsTrust